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No comments on EmailIt used to be that I’d reply to all personal email as soon as it arrived. Those days, alas, have been gone for some time now. While I do receive more personal emails, response time has not increased proportionally – more likely it’s increased logarithmically. I’m not entirely sure why this is so. It’s not…
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Braille drive-through
Braille instructions on a drive-through ATM? Only in America (scroll down).
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Turok Scam
Stephen Fulljames wrote to the Culture about a terrible scam being perpetrated by Acclaim (a computer games company). Basically, Acclaim ran a marketing promotion for their new game Turok Evolution, where volunteers would receive £500 and a free X-Box if they changed their name by deed poll to ‘Turok’. The winners have been announced, and…
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Fast Times at Fairmont High
Ack! Vernor Vinge has done it again! His Hugo award-winning novella Fast Times at Fairmont High is not merely an excellent story (what else would you expect from the Vingester?) but it throws out some wonderful ideas about the future of entertainment and the singularity. The quality of SF writing has increased drastically recently, in…
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Nutcracker Lemmings
It just occurred to me that there must be an entire generation of kids (they’re probably adults now) who only know Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, and other classical works, by their use on Lemmings. There don’t seem to be that many games using classical music these days, although I have to admit that I probably wouldn’t…
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iainbanks.net
Iain Banks has a shiny new website completely devoid of content, apart from an extract from Dead Air (it’s not bad). Oh, and the covers of his non-SF novels have been updated and become quite respectable now.
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I am the very model of a Mefi net contributor
My theme tune for Metafilter (sorry Gilbert and Sullivan!)
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DeLong and science
Brad DeLong makes an electric motor and worries about kids and science.
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Sum of All Fears
Saw The Sum of All Fears(2002) tonight. It was pretty good – much better than the terrible novel, which I tried to read twice, without success. I admit I don’t like Clancy’s novels, but 1040 pages? You’ve got to be joking.
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Banks interview
View from the left Banks – another interview with Iain Banks (better than the Guardian one). “He played Civilisation 3 for a month recently, then wiped the files and binned the CD.” Ah, a man of my own heart.
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